In this week's DF Direct, the team discusses a range of topics but it's the subject of the Ryzen 9000/Zen 5 CPU reviews that made the biggest impression on me. Actually, it was a question raised by one of our supporters, asking about discrepancies in results between various outlets. We saw some reasonable, if modest, improvements comparing the new Ryzen 7 9700X against the last-gen 7700X, while others only saw... Read more ›
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Deadlock - a game which is yet to actually be announced in any official way, shape or form - had a concurrent player peak of over 16,000 this weekend.At the time of writing, the game's peak is sitting at 16,947 players on Steam, with 4,714 people playing it at this very moment in time. I tried to install it myself via a little tab on SteamDB just now, but was... Read more ›
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Just because a brand does one thing well, doesn't mean they can waltz into another sector and do just as well, right? Noctua may be one of the rare exceptions, as the Austrian fan makers have adapted one of their legendary high performance PC fans into a genuinely decent desk fan following years of teases and rumours. The humble desk fan was first mentioned six years ago at Computex, and... Read more ›
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PUBG publisher Krafton has acquired developer Tango Gameworks and the rights to Hi-Fi Rush, marking the company's first "significant investment" in the Japanese video game market.Tango Gameworks, which is also known for the likes of the Evil Within series, was founded by Shinji Mikami in 2010. In 2012, Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media purchased Tango, before it was then itself acquired by Microsoft years later.Under Microsoft, Tango surprise launched Hi-Fi... Read more ›
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As Sega prepares for remaster Sonic X Shadow Generations' release in October, the original Sonic Generations game is being withdrawn from sale as a "standalone title".From 9th September onwards, the 2011 game will only be available "via bundles of other iconic Sonic titles on Steam and Xbox"."We're excited to share Sonic X Shadow Generations with you this October and see a new generation cherish this game as much as we... Read more ›
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The Borderlands movie adaptation generated just $4m across 3125 locations on its opening day.As reported by Variety, even with boosted ticket sales from Imax and "other premium large-format auditoriums", it seems its Hollywood cast isn't enough of a draw for the $115m production.Variety points out that distributor Lionsgate has "financially shielded itself" and recouped 60 percent of its production costs through international pre-sales, but right now the film has the... Read more ›
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Dark Souls 2 is an often overlooked entry in the Souls series, despite just how unique it was in experimenting with its mechanics and atmosphere back in 2014. In being sandwiched between the now iconic original Dark Souls, and developer FromSoftware's later efforts like Bloodborne, it's at times forgotten - thought of as an experiment, a tangent that wasn't followed up on. Even so, the modding community around Dark Souls... Read more ›
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Fallout: London is the "fastest-redeemed" game of all time on GOG.The fan-made mod - which is being distributed for free via GOG's platform, hence why the digital games distributor can't use terms like "fastest-selling" - was redeemed more than 500,000 times in its first 24 hours."The initial release of Fallout: London quickly turned out to be an incredible success - and a prime example of how work of passion and... Read more ›
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While we may have already known that Geralt will not be the focus of CD Projekt Red's next The Witcher game, voice actor Doug Cockle has confirmed he'll at least be reprising the role in The Witcher 4.In an interview in which Cockle tries to remember his most iconic lines, the voice of Geralt of Rivia confirmed that Geralt will be "part of the [next] game", but the storyline will... Read more ›
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Fortnite will host another Marvel-focused season, this time centering on Doctor Doom, accompanied by yet more superhero faces for Epic Games' evergreen battle royale. Details of Fortnite's next season, named Fortnite x Marvel: Absolute Doom, were announced this morning during Disney's D23 fan event, and livestreamed in Fortnite itself. Marvel boss Kevin Feige was joined on stage by Star Wars legend Dave Filoni and Pixar head honcho Pete Doctor, who... Read more ›
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It looks like PlayStation is introducing user reviews on the PS Store.In a thread entitled "When did PlayStation start allowing written reviews?", an eagle-eyed PS5 owner noted on the PlayStation subreddit that the company was inviting user reviews for a select number of games.Whilst fans have long been able to rate games from zero to five stars out of five, this is the first time players have been invited to... Read more ›
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Brace yourself, Call of Duty fans - it seems the cinematics from Black Ops 6's single-player campaign have leaked online.Just like last week, when multiplayer images leaked, the video was hit with copyright claims from Activision within hours, intimating that it's authentic.According to InsiderGaming, the cutscenes - which did not have audible sound - were "extracted from the beta build of Black Ops 6", after some players managed to access... Read more ›
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Team Folon – the volunteer squad of developers who have released the ambitious Fallout 4 mod, Fallout London – is set to launch itself as a new indie studio.Talking to the BBC (via PCGN), Folon's project lead, Dean Carter, admitted that "as much as I love the fact that this is a free project - that we can offer this thing for free for all the community - free doesn't... Read more ›
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Take-Two Interactive boss Strauss Zelnick said the company is not tempted to put its game on subscription services like Xbox Game Pass on day one because "our decisions are rational".Talking to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz, Zelnick said that whilst he accepted "offering a frontline title with a premium price in a subscription service, day and date, will push consumers to that subscription service for at least a period of time",... Read more ›
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I was born in the UK, and I've lived all my life here, but I've never quite been able to reconcile myself with the weather.Most of the year passes in a grey, eternally chilly manner, often paying host to a weak drizzle of rain. The sun is simply known as a stranger in a strange land that visits during summer, but there are no guarantees of that either. I wake... Read more ›
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Following yesterday's "enhanced" Doom 1 & 2 release, developer id Software has unveiled another treat for Doom fans as this weekend's QuakeCon celebrations continue: official mod support for Doom Eternal on PC, which arrives in the form of a new mod browser and the release of idStudio mod creation tools on Steam. Starting today, with the release of DOOM Eternal's Update 6.66 Rev 3 beta, players can browse, download, and... Read more ›
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With the season of financial reports upon us, Remedy Entertainment has joined the throng, its half-year financial update confirming progress to some of its most anticipated titles - its Max Payne 1 & 2 remake having now entered full production, while "important" Control 2 features are now in "playable form". Remedy confirmed it was remaking cult-classic slo-mo shooters Max Payne 1 & 2 back in 2022 as part of a... Read more ›
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I always feel a little icky when I say I'm a fan of reality TV. It's no doubt a pop-culture titan, but it's also a genre that comes with a lot of problematic baggage. Exploitation, humiliation, hypersexualization, reinforced gender essentialism - the list goes on and on. The controversial topics the genre is tangled up in is - put lightly - a complete nightmare, but I can't stop watching. It's... Read more ›
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Valve looks to be introducing a new filter system to help players sift out user reviews not deemed "helpful."As spotted by a member of the Steam subreddit, Valve appears to have briefly activated a "helpfulness system" that essentially hid joke or silly reviews from view. Read more Read more ›
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Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick would like you to give the new Borderlands movie "a chance" because "a lot of people worked really hard on it".Zelnick was asked about the film's less-than-stellar early reviews during yesterday's Q1 earnings call, and whilst he called the "look and the feel" of the movie "terrific", Zelnick told IGN its performance "wouldn't have a financial impact" on Take-Two or, indeed, the Borderlands franchise itself."Let's give... Read more ›
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